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Oversharing of information is a major concern in the AI era. This article describes how to write a script to report file sharing for OneDrive for Business accounts. The report details the files shared, the type of sharing link and access, and who can access the files. It's an example of using the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK to understand what's happening in a tenant.
This week on Practical Protection, we are talking about Password Policies, what NIST thinks, and offer some advice on staying secure.
The room mailbox statistics script has proven to be a popular script downloaded and used by many to analyze the usage patterns of room mailboxes. Recently, a reader pointed out that the Graph API request to fetch workspaces didn't work. Microsoft has changed the Places resource and the request now needed to run against the beta endpoint. All of which brought me to rewrite the script using the Graph SDK.
This episode of Practical Purview showcases some compliance controls that you should consider including in any provisioning solution. This is not an exhaustive list, but rather some key controls to consider.
Users receive all manner of notification messages from different sources. These messages are of no great value after a few days, so here's a script to find and remove messages to clean up mailboxes. All written using cmdlets from the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK.
Copying data from Windows endpoints to USB storage devices is one of the largest sources of data leakage. In this article, we discuss two simple solutions to avoid this problem.
In this episode of the Practical 365 Podcast, we are joined by TEC Speaker, Shinesa Cambric, to explore the parallels between AI adoption and the cloud revolution, get into the changing nature of identity in our digital world, and get a sneak peak into Shinesa's Keynote session.
In the first episode of Practical Teams Phone, Thorsten Pickhan reviews Teams Shared Calling, how it works, and some practical use cases.
Microsoft's big launch of Copilot Wave 2 featured many new capabilities, like a super-duper focused Inbox for Outlook (one that works this time), Python in Excel, and a profusion of agents for SharePoint Online. The idea behind agents is pretty good and should be valuable, even if IT might have some dark thoughts about how agents might allow people to access information that they shouldn't (this won't happen).
Microsoft reported yet another nation-state attack, code-named Peach Sandstorm. In this blog, we discuss the threat actor and provide steps to defend against similar attacks.
Three years ago, we described how to create organizational contacts in user mailboxes with Graph API requests. In this iteration, we read the contacts from a Microsoft list and use Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK cmdlets to update user mailboxes. The techniques explained in the article can be used in many scenarios.
Microsoft recently stopped supporting Microsoft Entra Connect and introduced its successor, Microsoft Entra Cloud Sync. This blog reviews how to set up and configure Microsoft Entra Cloud Sync, with helpful tips along the way.
